[PATCH v4 21/23] powerpc/syscall: Remove FULL_REGS verification in system_call_exception

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Tue Jan 26 01:48:34 AEDT 2021


For book3s/64, FULL_REGS() is 'true' at all time, so the test voids.
For others, non volatile registers are saved inconditionally.

So the verification is pointless.

Should one fail to do it, it would anyway be caught by the
CHECK_FULL_REGS() in copy_thread() as we have removed the
special versions ppc_fork() and friends.

null_syscall benchmark reduction 4 cycles (332 => 328 cycles)

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c
index 30f8a397a522..a40775daa88b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ notrace long system_call_exception(long r3, long r4, long r5,
 	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BOOKE) && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_40x))
 		BUG_ON(!(regs->msr & MSR_RI));
 	BUG_ON(!(regs->msr & MSR_PR));
-	BUG_ON(!FULL_REGS(regs));
 	BUG_ON(arch_irq_disabled_regs(regs));
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PKEY
-- 
2.25.0



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